Quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the operator product expansion, and dark energy

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2051-2059

  Hollands, Stefan ^a   Wald, Robert M ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Curved spacetimes; Dark energy; Operator product expansion; Quantum field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 52549109486     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-008-0672-y     Document Type: Review

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13. Hollands, S., Kopper, C.: in preparation
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